When Dan Brown of Altamont was a child, he watched with fascination as fighter jets took off from the former Suffolk County Air Force Base near his family home on Long Island. And later as a youngster after seeing aerobatic feats of the Thunderbirds — the U.S. Air Force’s demonstration squadron — he knew he wanted to learn to fly but never figured he’d be building his own plane. He got his pilot’s license and, ...

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